Teaching

At the University of Brighton, Sue teaches both undergraduates and postgraduates on the following courses/modules:

MSc Personnel & Development: Human Resource Management in Context

Undergraduate Business: Researching Contemporary Issues in HRMBSc Business with Enterprise: Global Business Context, Business Analysis, Solving Business Problems, Continuing Professional Development, Business Enterprise

She supervises MSc students in HRM and HRD, and MPhil/PhD students in the field of online learning and teaching. She is Programme Leader for the consortium partnership award FdA Business and is Joint Honours Business Pathway leader at Hastings campus. She is also Course Leader for the problem-based learning course, BSc Business with Enterprise at Hastings campus.

She is external examiner at the University of Edinburgh and University of Greenwich, and Subject Examiner for Managing Organisational Change and Development for the Association of Business Executives. Sue is also Course Director for BSc Business Administration and Research Methods Module Leader for a University of Wales validated online final year honours degree course, teaching fully online and managing a virtual academic team.

Consultancy

Through her jointly-owned management and development consultancy, Positive Images, Sue specialises in soft skills and leadership training and strategic facilitation. She was previously a non-executive Director of Sussex Enterprise.

Biography

Sues early management experience was gained as an administrator and manager at the Medical Research Council in London, MRC Radiobiology Unit in Harwell and University of Aston in Birmingham. She has been professionally involved in learning and teaching since 1973, with learning being central to her career and interests, be it personal, class-based or online. She is a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England in the Diocese of Chichester. She is also a breeder of pedigree Southdown sheep. Her husband Tony is also an academic at Brighton Business School and co-partner of Positive Images.

Qualifications

BA (Dual Hons.) French & Economics, MBA, EdD

Awards

Sue gained a Teaching Excellence award at University of Brighton in 2007

Centre for Learning and Teaching Fellowship award with Asher Rospigliosi to investigate and support staff adoption of e-learning 2008